Translation of: La vie de Jean-Jacques Dessalines, chef des noirs révoltés de Saint-Domingue, first printed Paris, 1804

First Spanish translation appeared in Madrid, 1805 under title: Vida de J.J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo; this edition printed with only one frontispiece portrait of Dessalines

"Constitucion que se ha establecido en la Isla de Santo Domingo, á conseqüencia de la elevación de Dessalines al título de Emperador de Hayti": p. 75-82

Signatures: pi1 [A] B-D chi1 E-I K³ *1 L-O

Engraved printer's vignette on title page; head and tail pieces

Includes engraved portraits of Henri Christophe, Dessalines, Georges Biassou, and Toussaint Louverture, whose name is given as Louverture in one and in another "Lauberture"; also includes illustrations with captions "Fue muerta y destrozada en el campo esta infelir p[o]r haver resistido alos deseos brutales de los Negros y el niño perezio de hambre asulado buscando el pecho yerto de su Madre", "Coronacion de Juan Santiago Desalines primer emperador de Hayti", "El cuidad[a]no. Heudoville habla al mentor de los Negros sobre las malas resultas de su revelion", "Cristobal comand. del Exercito recorre la ysla de S[an]to. Domingo incendiando y matando alos in felices colonos de ella" and one entitled simply "Desalines" which depicts the general, sword raised in one arm, while the other holds a decapitated head of a white woman

Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne

Medina, J.T. México

Leclerc, C. BIb. Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full speckled calf

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: Francisco Moscardo Yedra: ms. autograph at head of title page, p. [3], 1st count, and p. [1], 2nd count

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